Chest CT scan (without contrast) at MUSC Health Chester Medical Center
1 Medical Park Drive, Chester, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1558937474
$1,064.00
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,128.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$101.06 with Bcbs vs $825.63 with Bcbs — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $101.06 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $102.61 | ↓ -90% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $103.08 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $103.63 | ↓ -90% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $108.63 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Exchange | $111.16 | ↓ -90% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $327.75 | ↓ -69% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $428.63 | ↓ -60% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $437.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $437.85 | ↓ -59% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $437.85 | ↓ -59% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $751.60 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $776.26 | ↓ -27% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $825.63 | ↓ -22% |
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Chest CT scan (without contrast) at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital | GREER | $1,513.20 | $98.89 – $183.36 |
| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | $6,994.00 | $146.70 – $488.41 |
| LIVE OAK MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS | Ladson | $6,994.00 | $146.70 – $488.41 |
| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $1,945.00 | $97.24 – $106.96 |
| MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center | Camden | $1,425.00 | $101.06 – $111.16 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $1,089.00 | not published |
| St Francis Eastside | Greenville | $1,089.00 | not published |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $733.00 | $97.24 – $106.96 |